Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".

Stubbornness leads to strong will.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

Simplicity is freedom.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.